whitewater rafting

A fun activity where you put on PFDs (layman; "life jacket"), jump in a rubber raft with little PVC paddles and float down the river....no big deal...until you get flipped over, hit on the head with a rock, hit in the teeth with a paddle, flipped out of the raft, pushed out of the raft, or are simply scared out of your mind and go into fight-or-flight mode with those class 5 rapids coming around the bend.

I was having a fun time whitewater rafting until we hit this class 4 sideways, our raft flipped over, I got sucked into the rapid and popped out about 40 feet away (still holding on to my paddle)...After whitewater rafting (which was a real rush) driving on the beltway doesn't seem so bad.

by irishREPUBLICANarmy January 01, 2004

lightbulb

Electric lamp consisting of a glass bulb containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated.

Geek One: What do you do in your free time?

Geek Two: Change lightbulbs!

by IrishRepublicanArmy January 27, 2004

T-1 line

high-speed connection to the internet
1.544 Mbps

i used by T1 to download 45 gigabytes of porn last night.

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 29, 2003

Future Hobos of America

An organization formed at Fairfax High School. The Future Hobos of America (FHA) really doesn't do anything, except form more FHA groups at other schools and sit around doing nothing.

Many of the members of the FHA are republicans

by IrishRepublicanArmy February 11, 2004

sober irishman

A mythical creature that only exists in legends and is often seen by drunking irishman.

Used by irish parents to scare their kids.

see irish

If you keep acting that way, you are going to grow up and become sober!

by IrishRepublicanArmy November 26, 2003

gigaflop

A billion, i.e. , 10(9), floating point operations per second.

Only supercomputers can run that fast..idiot

by IrishRepublicanArmy January 24, 2004

Sporadic E

Irregular scattered patches of relatively dense ionization that develop seasonally within the E region and that reflec­t and scatter frequencies up to 150 MHz. Note 1: The sporadic E is a regular day­time occurrence over the equatorial regions and is common in the temper­ate latitudes in late spring, early summer and, to a lesser degree, in early winter. Note 2: At high, i.e., polar, latitudes, sporadic E can accompany auroras and associated disturbed magnetic conditions. Note 3: The sporadic E can sometimes support reflec­tions for distances up to 1000 miles or more at frequencies up to 150 MHz

I got some nice 6-meter DX contacts with yesterday's sporadic E.

by IRISHrepublicanARMY January 03, 2004